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Wow. You have guts to go after Tetris
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borderlands is as good as the 30 year old white liberal blues rock it uses as theme songs. theyre good games to do stims to though
My feeling on this: Tetris was a great game as of 1989, but something gradually went wrong with its legacy over the decades after its release.
Henk Rogers had that belief that Tetris was perfect and proposals to change it were a threat to its purity, players’ consistency of experience and the brand. Aligned with Tetris Company’s mission to staunchly defend Tetris against watering-down, the story that Tetris was the perfect game was trumpeted and became conventional wisdom.
And I suspect what’s bringing Tetris back to your mind at all now is a recent positive trend with Tetris that’s aligning with your view. It had actually close to fully died – it did not participate in the latest mobile revolution, for example – and the Tetris Company seems therefore to have decided to revive it by finally allowing a little more creativity, a bit more of that flash of idiosyncratic, personal life energy you’re looking for. While largely still sticking to the technical letter of their purity rules, they have now allowed fresher, less chilly and abstract interpretations like Tetris Effect, Tetris 99 and Puyo Puyo Tetris.
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Now can they stop getting in the way of a new Tetris the Grand Master?
Oh, man, I don’t agree with this at all.
I fully 100% believe I am justified that Tetris is a game to mfing hate.
The randomness, the ambiguity of rotation rules, the ambiguity of the lose state, the MFing mashing necessary at high levels, the ambiguity of where/how your piece arrives from the invisible space above the playfield, the MFing randomness, the goddamn music, fuck the fuck goddamn I hate tetris.
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you’re all going to get cornered in the woods by a bunch of S blocks and korobeiniki is going to emanate from the middle distance while they break your legs
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Oh so what you’re saying is that you’re a cop
vv Is that really any different?
More like a KGB agent
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I mean, it was designed in the 80s by somebody who had hardly played any other videogames, nor was it expected to be played for hundreds of hours. Give it some slack on this kind of game design detail, you wouldn’t subject any other game from that era to this kind of exacting criteria
:twisted :
I’m deadbolting my door tonight against the S-blocks
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This sounds like a decent treatment for the Tetris movie, actually.
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and @meauxdal and @Hache
Borderlands is a franchise I fucking PLAYED.
It’s mindless grind was IN me for a while.
There are positive things to say, but the game is mush. It has to be mush. It has tons of guns but the variety is wasted because all the slight variations amount to little difference, and you find a set of guns that do some damage at some distance at certain variable and most of the rest are objectively worse. Once you settle on a later game set you can go through hours of the game before finding another worth even trying.
The levels are all forgettable because they are all vast spaces with no tactics, thought, or detail put into them. I’ve played 90 hours of borderlands 2 and all I can really remember are rocks and grey buildings. Sans ONE SINGLE shot int he previews for 3, that seems to hold going forward.
The enemies are mostly just moving targets, meat slabs to shove your spreadsheet dispensers into. The game would of had more tactics and thought if they used the amount of numbers on the screen to evoke number muncher, instead they are rolling numbers at a casino. You hope for them to be bigger, flashier, anything to break the stream of disappointment that rolls out of the barrel, but that hope that dopamine hits when it does happen, but it’s so feelting and pointless your brain kicks in and asks why?
As you pummel your conscious thought for trying to interact with what should be a good time the hours slip by and you progress only to awaken to the fact that you’ve been ‘running’ for 5 minutes getting to point a to point b in a video game. Just shift and w with occasional taps of a and s.
Do I hate Borderlands now through? No, I’m just indifferent. I can only be as mad as the effort put forth to evoke a reaction, which seems to be about none. It’s a fun brain dead shooting gallery to have as a backdrop for discussion with friends, but as a video game? No. It’s a lesson in design, a lesson to why RNG makes literally millions of guns feel like 14 or so and only really 5 major differences.
Borderlands evokes apathy, milks it, in a way no other piece of entertainment I’ve seen can. It would be a masterpiece if it fucking meant to be what it is.
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i missed pikmin chat, thats a shame.
pikmin 1 is fine and pikmin 2 is awful (dungeons) but pikmin 3 is probs the finest action adventure of the last 10 yrs
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Anybody play that 2d Pikmin game?
The demo was pretty rough and didn’t bode well; they were going for a puzzle-platformer but had a lot of filler Pikmin assigning outside any context of ‘gather enough so you can do this tomorrow’
Pikmin 3 is my number one “port to Switch you cowards” killer app.
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I played through it completely. It’s not very good! Slow, boring, and repetitive. I think there is a completionist aspect to it, too, not unlike Yoshi’s Island. A much better version, if you’re looking for it, would be Kirby Mass Attack.
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I stan a legend
Avatar/post combo of the century!
Borderlands and company